PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. – In accordance with President Trump’s Executive Order, “Clarifying the Military’s Role in Protecting the Territorial Integrity of the United States,” Gen. Gregory M. Guillot, Commander, U.S. Northern Command, submitted his Level 3 Concept Plan (CONPLAN) to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth via the Joint Staff on March 20, 2025.
A Level 3 CONPLAN is an abbreviated operational plan that requires expansion and alteration to become a full-fledged operational order.
The USNORTHCOM Level 3 CONPLAN concentrates on three major categories to achieve full operational control of the southern border. These are: border management, border security, and unique military capabilities.
The plan describes DoD’s operational requirements “to provide steady-state southern border security, seal the border, and maintain the sovereignty, territorial integrity, and security of the United States by repelling forms of invasion, including unlawful mass migration, narcotics trafficking, human smuggling and trafficking, and other criminal activities.”
For operations security reasons, the Level 3 CONPLAN is not publicly releasable.
Additional information will be released as forces are identified to support the southern border mission.
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